empireOfLove2

empireOfLove2 , 1 day ago

Rust desk is super based. And their software performs MILES better than Teamviewer's shitty compression ever did.

empireOfLove2 , 15 hours ago

Sorry you had to find out this way, but yes- your hip and fly is gone!

empireOfLove2 , 2 days ago

If there is any game you legit shouldn't pirate if possible, Factorio is one of them. Wube is one of the most based small independent developers out there, their code quality, optimization and game design is second to none, they have a super active community that the developers themsleves often participate in, and their game is very reasonably priced for the thousands of hours you can dump into it. The account requirement for the official mod portal is maybe the only slightly anti-user thing they've done.

Oh noo, your still working 3rd party mod downloader makes you enter in mods one at a time instead of grabbing a whole mod pack?

No offense, but I think this is a personal skill issue. If it were any other company doing it sure, but don't take Wube to task over it just because you're mad it takes an extra 5min to install a large mod pack via a 3rd party loader that I'm sure they've intentionally not blocked.

empireOfLove2 , 3 days ago

No, the personal wallet lightener (it's just a shitty android phone with no LLM running a poorly written app)

empireOfLove2 , 1 day ago

Oh for sure, an Android OS base is fine, but it just reinforces the fact that the actual device is manufactured shovelware E-waste that could have just been an expensive app, as the hardware itself doesn't do anything special...

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Depends very heavily on the cows. Cattle rancher here. Be careful about it and *most cattle are OK to walk among.

Generally speaking, most farm cattle are timid towards people. They may come check you out and encircle you as a herd, but will usually scurry away if you move suddenly, and don't care if you're just in the field with them. They are herbivorous herd/prey animals, after all. The cattle my parents raise, perfectly safe to walk through. Hell the calves will often come up and sniff you out and rub up against you.

Some remote range cattle can be more wild. They might take off running if they see you within a half mile, or they might come running towards you if they deem you a threat.

The real danger often lies with bulls (hanging balls and huge shoulder) or cows with young calves (<1mo old). Both of these can be very unpredictable.
I've interacted with some bulls that were as gentle as can be and some that would rip your skin off if you weren't on the other side of a panel. You should never go into a paddock with an unknown bull, ever.
And even the most timid cow can start squaring up if she has a very young calf still in need of protection.

It's something you mostly have to learn how to read. Cows are expressive. They have body language. They speak with their head and their tails, and they look with their ears. For me it's easy to tell if a cow is safe to approach, but it is a learned skill.

When you approach cows, make noise. Nothing racocious but just talking in a firm tone to them is enough. Make sure the herd olknows your approaching long before you get close enough to be a danger, never suprise a cow. Always keep a distance of minimum 30 feet unless they approach you themselves out of curiosity.

A head and/or tail held very high means they are alert and focused on you, this usually means they are nervous and about to fight-or-flight. Back off slowly and try not to turn away.
If a herd dispersed while grazing begins to bunch up together, that also means they're getting nervous. Just avoid the bunch and walk away from whatever direction they're heading.

A head held low while looking at you, or still grazing means they are relaxed. They dont usually lower their head to "charge" like in the cartoons until they're already moving. You're new to the field so they'll always look at you. Move smoothly and steadily, they won't bother you.

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago

Haha yeah they'll do that. They can be insufferably curious.

I remember one time one of our border collie pups (not old enough to work but just getting introduced to the herd) got away from my mom. The cows all came over to check her out and she took off with the whole herd right after her!
She wasn't that interested in working much after that...

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago (edited 12 hours ago)

Oh yeah, she's fine now. She was young and impressionable, wasn't hard to get her used to going back out there in better circumstances.

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago

Not just you. Low(er) quality downloads are still a huge part of the torrent scene, see how popular most 720p YIFY uploads are even though their encoder quality is pretty garbage. Most people in general want a fast download and are viewing on a small laptop or even phone screen and don't give a rats ass about fidelity, LQ works perfectly fine for this. Even I'll grab a LQ once in a while if it's something my girl and I want to watch that night and I didn't plan ahead.

The desire for high quality uploads is more for people running home setups like Plex, where it's better to keep a HQ source file and have it transcoded to lower resolutions by your home server setup as necessary. They generally aren't storage constrained as an 8tb hard drive for a normal PC is fairly cheap these days. I'd wager maybe <30% of torrenters actually go after ultra HQ uploads based off seeder numbers.

Personally I stick to stuff that is at least 1080p with HDR and H265 encode preferred, because I archive most everything I download due to similar problems with internet speed. Over maybe 12 years of torrents I've amassed a hair over 5tb of content, and that's a LOT of movies l, it all fits on a single $120 external HDD.

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago

This has the same iq level as spraying paint on stonehenge

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago

Curious to see how Putin spins this. He's very committed to the Ukraine gambit and dividing force strength wouldn't likely be in his favor at this point, so this seems off brand for a false flag. Or it's more of the local terror groups taking advantage of the fact that they are focused on Ukraine.

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

If I'm to guess based off your username, you probably have a lot better understanding of the Caucasus than I do. Thank you for your views.
Having just done a little research, I see Dagestan is high majority Muslim too, I can see that also adding some stress between them and the Orthodoxy common in the rest of Russia/it's government. And give separatists a lever to push on.

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

It will not affect system stability, but... Surge protectors do not work at all without a ground wire to drop excess voltage to. Any kind of line voltage disturbance could kill every device.

Additionally, without any ground wire to pull the housings of devices to ground, the potential for a short to energize the case and then electrocute you is also high.

additionally additionally, if you have grounded outlets that don't actually have a ground connection running to them, that means either the wiring system is broken or it was "updated" by an unlicensed hack job who has undoubtedly made numerous more dangerous decisions elsewhere in the circuit.

If your house is entirely ungrounded you really should have an electrician come update it ASAP. Outlet grounds have been mandatory since 1971. The chances are high that wiring predating that code is still using old cloth-wrapped wire insulation or even knob&tube, both of which are huge fire risks as the insulation is decayed badly by now. It's expensive to have all new wire pulled but it is necessary.

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago

Generally speaking most buildings can be "grandfathered in" under code such that it's perfectly legal to rent as long as the electrical system functions and meets code for the year on which it was built or installed... shitty, but legal.

empireOfLove2 , 13 hours ago

Absolutely. Don't fuck with electrical.

empireOfLove2 , 4 days ago

People with no internet access obviously don't exist.

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago

Flawless statistics!

empireOfLove2 , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

The point is not power but hardware compatibility. Emulation only goes so far and many, if not most, weird esoteric hardware systems from the 90s depended on idiosyncracies and strange usage of standard busses and weird interactions of the CPU. Emulation almost always breaks this.

empireOfLove2 , 6 days ago

looks like the implemented CPU (ULi M6117C) supports a coprocessor interface, so it is entirely possible that a 387sx equivalent could give it floating point capabilities. it's probably not electrically implemented on this specific device to expose the interface though. otherwise yeah no FP sucks

empireOfLove2 , 6 days ago

also most of those USB adapters likely won't support true hardware switch interrupts, Direct Memory Access, or raw bus control to talk to other cards, which almost every special ISA card actually needs at least one of these to function.

empireOfLove2 , 6 days ago

ahhh fuck I forgot about that little stupid memory bus cheat that Intel pulled. they've been good at obfuscating their screwing of consumers thru weird naming schemes ever since they started lol

empireOfLove2 , 6 days ago

Meta is struggling a lot less, probably because they were smart enough to lay off in one go,

or more like their user experience was already so garbage, adding AI to it doesn't make any noticeable change lol

empireOfLove2 , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

I am already the Unfortunate Cousin; however, it seems to be an unpaid internship...

empireOfLove2 , 7 days ago

The headline they want you to read: "zomg these master criminals were causing billions in damages!!!!1!1"

The headline everyone else reads: "lmao piracy run by a couple random schmucks has an infinitely better service AND content selection than any corporate streaming service"

empireOfLove2 , 9 days ago

i want to sleep when i'm at work. i don't want to sleep when i'm at home during my free time

empireOfLove2 , 15 hours ago

that's just a "I don't want to" 24/7 regardless where I am

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago

instruxtions unclear: 1hr getting ready /8hr work /1hr unpaid lunch/2hr total commute/1hr shower and nap/3hr cleaning house and dishes and cooking dinner/barely 2 hour free time /8 hour sleep

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago

Haha me too

Then the second I see bed it's like "Oh that's nice flops and passes out for 3 hours"

empireOfLove2 , 9 days ago

Uh uh, no way, not touching that cash, that is 1000% a mafia deal gone wrong and collecting on it is how you get disappeared

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago

IRS reporting has entered the chat

empireOfLove2 , 9 days ago

So, if these prices can be so easily updated, surely the retailers can now include tax in the listed price. It's very simple automated math of course...

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago

Depends, generally no. Some supermarkets do as a company policy though and I choose to shop at those that do show per-unit pricing (and are also locally/employee owned)

empireOfLove2 , 9 days ago

Humidity is relative, not absolute. Air's carrying capacity for water increases as temperature goes up, even if the total amount of water in the air is the same.

Air with 50%RH at 70F (eg, it has 50% of its max water content) only has about 10%RH at 120F. So if you get the filament hot, it gets dry.
This can be improved with outside air circulation i guess, but it's not necessary and usually causes extra energy use due to heating the makeup air.

empireOfLove2 , 9 days ago

This is true. If you left it in the same environment it would eventually return to equilibrium and the net result would be the same. the key is that the plastic has a limited take up rate of atmospheric moisture. so if you dry it for a few hours, the water migrates out slowly, but then takes quite some time to migrate back in.

generally people either print from a dryer box or dry filaments immediately before printing.

empireOfLove2 , 11 days ago

From personal experience buying certain car parts, sensors and electronic components... "Bosch", "Premium" and "Quality" are words that shouldn't be in the same sentence, and haven't been for a bunch of years already...

empireOfLove2 , 11 days ago

Did you know? Emails are free and you're allowed to have more than one...

empireOfLove2 , 11 days ago

Always pay for the damn ferry!

empireOfLove2 , 14 hours ago

Probably because it rarely worked in real life! It was especially harder if your party was travelling in the spring. River currents are strong as shit and there's no way even oxen could stand strong enough to keep it from running away during strong spring snowmelt flows.

empireOfLove2 OP , 6 days ago

and they want to take the rest of us with them! Complete with 1820's civil rights, 1820's woman's rights, 1820's pollution and industrial standards....

empireOfLove2 OP , 6 days ago

man i'd love to have a meat cigar rn

empireOfLove2 OP , 14 hours ago

The idea of a nice club is great but it's probably not something taxpayers should be funding for elected representatives

empireOfLove2 OP , 13 hours ago

It'd be cool if he transitioned to former rep

empireOfLove2 , 16 days ago

Do you use Firefox?
because Google intentionally nerfs loading performance on any non-Chrome browsers.

I usually find if startup buffering takes more than 2-3 seconds on my home Internet, just refreshing the page magically makes it go away.

empireOfLove2 OP , 6 days ago

it's because implementing an existing touch screen module and then telling a bunch of code monkeys in a 3rd world country to write a barely functional UI for it is actively cheaper than engineering, sourcing, assembling and testing keypads with physical buttons or even a membrane keyboard these days

using a touch screen also means they can put the same mass produced PCB into 40 different products instead of needing a custom button pattern for each. just tell the code monkeys to update the UI. there's a lot of economic arguments for the use of touch screens, but it sure doesn't make the field worker's lives any easier.

empireOfLove2 , 6 days ago

nope, not a truck in any sense of the word. granted I use it like one, lol, but it is very much a light passenger car chassis.